Véronique Bénéï
Chan Langaret
Enric Porqueres I Gené
Jeudi 19 Décembre 2013
de 15h00 à 17h00
salle 587, 190 avenue de France, 75013 PARIS
Charis Thompson / Professor at the Department of Sociology (LSE)
Séance organisée et animée par Enric Porqueres I Gené
Drawing on fieldwork in California, I look at the ways in which regenerative, reproductive and genomic sciences are enabling new forms of governance and subjectivity. I follow an emerging biopolitical logic that I call "pro-activism," that simultaneously mobilises neoliberal and statist biopolitical paradigms, linked through disease advocacy, the rise of the forensic and biometric state, and a so-called bench-to-bedside translational innovation mandate that incorporates the public, research entities, the state, and private capital in new configurations. What is life ? Who is a parent ? What is a family ? Which notions of peoplehood are salient in this biopolitical logic ? Who owns one’s biomaterial and bio-information ? In what ways is pro-activism redistributive and a form of resistance and change, and in what ways does it recycle or create new forms of stratification ?
Prochaine séance le jeudi 16 janvier 2014 :
Jean-Claude Monod (CNRS), Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie ? Séance organisée et animée par Irène Bellier